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O'NEILL. NEBR.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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"They” Don’t Pay—You Do!
After 2 decades of democratic high spending and immoral waste
and graft the average person is getting mighty familiar with big
figures. And familiarity always breeds contempt. And we're getting
mighty contemptuous of the word “economy” . . . but after all we’re
only following the cynical attitude laid down by a hell-bent-for
bankruptcy administration.
Take the budget for instance. President Truman talks in terms
of 72 billion dollars and hints darkly of the need for even more
spending.
We read those words in a newspaper headline and we say “TO.
billions, ho hum, up go taxes again" and we thumb through the
paper ts something more juicy in interesting reading.
We no longer get shocked or scared by the thought of a 72 bil
lion dollar budget. If we’d say it the right way, what 72 billion
really is, ‘“72 thousand million dollars,” then we might become a
bit more uneasy.
And we should translate that 72 thousand million dollars down
into terms of population. It means an average tax bill for every
family of $1,600 a year for every family. That means the average
household head is shelling out, or mortgaging his children’s future,
in the sum of $30 a week.
We must remember that nobody, but nobody, is going to pay
the bill for us. No corporation is going to pay that tax.
No nebulous “they" is going to pay the tax. We’re going to pay
that tax. The U. S. debt is going to be paid by US and nobody else.
If we start thinking in those terms we might ask ourselves "how*
much of that $30 a week can we afford to waste?” What we need
are more frightened people who will jar loose a grass roots demand
for all economy possible in government.
Give $10 to Flood
Stricken Victims—
CHAMBERS—The Valley Cen
ter Extension club met at the
home of Mrs. H. C. Walter on
Friday afternoon, August 24. with
11 members present.
The president, Mrs. Raymond
Beed, conducted the business
session. Plans were discussed for
making a club booth at the coun
ty fair. They also voted to give
$10 to the Red Cross flood relief.
Mrs. E. R. Carpenter presented
the lesson on “Courtesies for You
—for Me." Refreshments of pie a
la mode and coffee were served
by the hostess.
Milton Krause Buys
Farm at Albion—
Milton M. Krause, who has
purchased a farm near Albion,
will leave O’Neill with his fam
ily the latter part of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Krause have 2 small
daughters, Nancy, 4 years, and
Peggy, 9 months.
Krause has been in business
here as a cattle feeder.
'Time'* Awasting'
Lesson Topic—
CHAMBERS — The Happy
Homemakers extension club met
Friday evening, August 23. at the
home of Mrs. Frank Spath with
Mrs. Kenneth Werner cohostess.
The business session was in
charge of the president. Mrs.
Werner. The lesson on “Time’s
Awasting’’ was presented by Mrs.
Harlan Dierking. Eleven mem
bers were present. Refreshments
were served by the hostesses.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Miss Lydia Halva, of Omaha, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Halva.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Heikelmann
and daughter. Ann, of Clinton,
la., and Mrs. Arthur Graybill, of
David City, were guests at the
John Harbottle home Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Lienemann
and sons, of Hastings, visited Mr.
and Mrs. C. D, Hartranft last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Janzing and
daughter, of Atkinson, spent Fri
day evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Herman J. Janzing.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Johnson
and family returned Monday
evening, August 20, from a
week’s vacation in Wyoming,
Colorado and Kansas. While a
way they visited with Mr. and
Mrs. Otis Johnson, of Lexington.
The Misses Helen and Hilda
Gallagher, who have been away
on vacation for 6 weeks, are ex
pected to return today (Thurs
day) or Friday. While away they
visited relatives in LaCross,
Wise.
Mr. and Mrs. Hobe Kitterman,
of Custer. S. D., visited Friday
and Saturday, August 17 and 18,
with Mrs. Carrie Borg.
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Central Finance
Carp. I
C. E. Jonas. Managar
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flimsy
TO BACK A WIN
ELECTRICAL LIVING IS
WINNING FAVOR WITH
MORE FARM FAMILIES
EACH YEAR.
Life In Nebraska—be It on the farm or
In the city—is life worthwhile! But
ELECTRICAL living really is BETTER
living. In the past decade—just about
the span of Consumers existence—farm
VIvH Hm attractive life in Nebraska has become really elec
electric display la trified. In the ten years Just ahead,
the Reclamation when today’s fine farm youth are tak
RWg state FAIR, ing their place among Nebraska’s top
producers of farm products and live
stock, electrical living on the farm will
be as universal as it Is today In the
urban centers—it’s winning favor just
that fast!
VISIT THE STATE FAIR SEPT. 2-7
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I'rairieland Talk—
Founder of Page Had Pride in
Town’s Legal and Moral Standing
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — Barney Stewart
who was not averse to the trickle
of a litlte of it himself, swore
out a warrant
and haled into
county court on
a hot day in the
summer of 1902
a gent who had
showed up in
Page to dispense
firewater contra
ry to the laws
and provisions
of the state of
Nebraska. Now
the village of
Saunders Page, since its
beginning and
adopting a name in honor of W.
W. Page, a pioneer surveyor, has
prided itself on its legal and
moral standing. Col. Stewart was
not primarily offended at the
commodity dispensed, but as a
patriot with both feet squarely
on the compiled statutes he was
in for eliminating anything that
would tarnish the fair name of
his home town. Of course Page is
not the only community that has
had a runin with gents who have
sought to line their pockets with
out the formality of lawful pro
cedure. Over Amelia way a thirs
ty one or two at a time headed
for Chambers with a quart bot
tle to be replenished. Something
about it that can be smelled quite
a distance and the red noses
know which way to point.
* * •
Stalwart, straight as a Sioux
Indian, at 82 he said he had
eaten no flesh food for 60 years.
A matron of 103 over there in
old Ireland says eat fish, keep
away from railroad trains and
buses if you want to survive for
a century. Maybe our beef
herds are not so important after
all supplying the daily roast.
* * *
George Davis, 89, died the oth
er day following a stroke. He
rated 2 lines of 6-point in the
death notices. I had called from
time to time to see this old man
in a nursing home, one of those
homes for the unwanted fathers
and mothers whose sons and
daughters for one reason or an
other have abandoned their par
ents to the care of the public.
George was a quiet little old
man and has a son in a distant
state. I found him at times in
tears — tears wrung from the
heartache of lonely old age, the
shadows of life’s sunset gather
ing around George now cast adrift
from family and friends of other
years. The matron of the home
where he had been for a year or
longer is a kindly soul and day
by-day brings a bit of sunshine
into dreary lives. George and his
wife were Holt county home
steaders where they sought in
early life to make a home in one
of the unfavored spots at a dis
tance from the river north of In
man, but found it discouraging
and were part of the exodus in
the early 1890’s. Mrs. Davis died
some years age and both now lie
in a Lincoln cemetery.
Television, a comparatively
late thing, is now in 1 out of 8
American homes. . . . There are
enough motor vehicles in the
country to put the entire popu
lation with less than 4 to each
vehicle rolling on the streets,
roads and highways. . . . Accord
ing to the U. S. treasury the
money now in circulation consists
of $26,187,000,000 paper currency
and $1,554,000,000 in coins. . . .
418 American daily papers and 12
magazines accept no liquor ad
vertising of any kind. . . . Vast
areas in Pacific coast states are
being swept by forest fires. . . .
Hawaii has been shaken by a
violent and destructive earth
quake. . . . Dwight Griswold, jr.,
CONCRETE BLOCKS
Steam Kiln Cured
Tested by Omaha
Testing Laboratories
—approved by Nebr.
Concrete Masonry
Ass’n.
Visit Our Plant
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See, Write or Call
DWAIN KIRK
CONCRETE
PRODUCTS CO.
| Plainview Nebr.
son of former Governor and Mrs.
Griswold is reported from Scotts
bluff to have died of polio. . . .
The number of polio cases in the
state reported for 1951 is placed
at 136. . . . Two women from
Indonesia, a young nation of 3
years standing as an independent
country, one of whose names re
quires 37 letters, have been in
Lincoln and other American cit
ies in the interests of education in
their country-A 15 pound ham
or its equivalent to each employe
on Christmas and Easter is the
novel demand of the labor union
of an Iowa packing plant.
* * *
September 9 is the opening day
of national home week. Maybe
that’s something to our credit.
Amid the mad scramble to get
gain and wallow in pleasures to
pause for one week and think of
home. Ajnd home ia infinitely
more than a display of architec
tural designs and monstrosities in
furnishings. The Bedouin, folding
his tent and moving to another
spot on the desert, may have
more home life than the modern
apartment dweller in American
cities.
* ♦ *
A penniless old patriot died
recently. His lifeless body was
held in the mortuary for days
'til the city-shaking problem of
payment of the funeral bill
could be determined.
* * •
A doctor advised the use of
boiled milk. Now there is but one
part of milk I use and I want it
raw. That’s the top coat. I sug
gested to the MD that if he
thought a cow did not know how
to make milk without boiling it,
to just take a trip up to a Holt
county ranch next month and see
the calves that have run with the
cows during the summer.
• • •
When a fellow gets an idea
that his program is the thing that
“ought to be done,” he is pretty
apt to have all the characteris
tics of a Missouri mule. The
schemes for flood control sound
pretty silly. When Jupiter Plu
vius uncorks the water is going
somewhere and some locality is
going to catch the overflow.
Dikes and dams are swept away
when enough water rushes in.
Amidst a setting of weeds at
the roadside I found it. One of
the beauties of floral bloom of
late summer there unfolded its
delicately tinted petals and re
vealed a gold-dusted heart. One
colorful thing at which you pause
and look amid unlovely sur
roundings. And so some lives
glow with the luster of a beauti
ful character amid the sordid
things of earth.
• • •
Seeing is believing. Sound, od
(Continued on page 7.)
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DR. GILDERSLEEVE. OJ>
OPTOMETRIST
Permanent Offteee tn
HageneicK Building
Phone 167
O'NEILL NEBR.
E»m Examined . Qlaaaea Fitted
ANNOUNCING
A Complete Closing-Out Sale of
THE HENRY PFEIFFER
LAND - LIVESTOCK - EQUIPMENT
AT AUCTION
ON
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 1951
• 2 choice Boyd County, Nebraska, grain and livestock
farms of 320 acres each. Highly improved. Located 4
miles east of Butte. Nebraska.
• 120 highly bred Hereford breeding cows. A large offer
ing of power-driven farm equipment.
Watch Later Issues or See Large
Sale Bills for Full Particulars
CONTACT:
WELLER-ADAMS CO.
“Sales and Auction Service”
Atkinson, Nebraska
ERNIE WELLER. Auct. LEO T. ADAMS. Mgr.
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